A court in Cambodia on Thursday sentenced the country's former ambassador to South Korea to five years in prison on charges of corruption and abuse of power.http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/12/01/world/asia/ap-as-cambodia-corruption.html?_r=0

Brazilian authorities are investigating thousands of reports of fraud and criminal interference in the country’s municipal elections, including one case in which the country’s most notorious prison gang allegedly funded…

The government has suspended the governor of Bangkok, the country's most senior elected official, on Thursday while the country's attorney general investigates allegations of corruption and misuse of city funds…

Iran’s former first vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi has been taken to jail to serve his prison term for corruption. Rahimi who served as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s deputy will serve a five year term and pay fine worth $300,000, and compensation worth $800,000. The Supreme Court made this ruling after considering appeal against the court’s ruling in which Rahimi had been jailed for 15 years. Rahimi becomes the highest ranking former government official to be jailed for corruption. He once served as anti-corruption agency chief, and received a medal of honor from former president Ahmadinejad. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/feb/16/irans-former-vice-president-jailed-for-corruption

Aam Aadmi Party has won 67 of the 70 seats in Delhi state elections. The party is identified as a radical anti-corruption political party. This means that Delhi state assembly will have far more than majority members from a political party that does not support corruption. What remains to be seen is how this party will tackle corruption

Italy’s newly elected president says corruption is a threat to the countries’ future if not rooted out. Over the past years, organized corruption has reached what authorities call unprecedented level, with Italian mafia running the corruption enterprise. Corruption is also said to be the main factor discouraging business start ups and foreign investments. Italy’s economy has been in crisis since the 2008 economic recession.http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/italys-president-decries-corruption-intolerable-28681537

Democratic Alliance leader Hellen Zille says government is not serious about corruption. This comes after government dismantled the anti-corruption team set in 2010 to fast-track and prioritizes war on corruption. Anwa Dramat the anti-corruption head was suspended in December 2014, a suspension high court later ruled was unlawful. Zille says government action might have something to do with the teams probe into President Zuma’s tax bill..http://www.timeslive.co.za/